Obamas 3000 Percent Sales Pitch
Usually lowering the price of something by more than 100 percent is a very bad idea. But 3000 percent?
That’s called good governing.
If Obamacare rams its way through Congress employer-based health care will defy the laws of physics or economics or something like that.
“For Americans who get their insurance through the work place-how many people are getting insurance through their jobs right now? Raise your hands.
Alright well, a lot of those folks, your employer it’s estimated would see premiums fall by as much as 3000 percent, which means they could give you a raise.”
Well why the hell didn’t he say that in the first place? This could have saved a lot of us right-wingers some valuable time. To think we could have been able to shoot our guns more often or clutch our bibles with both left and right arms.
Instead, we spent months fighting against this so-called “reform” with our Astroturfing ways.
But I guess we were wrong. According to one of the smartest Presidents ever, a person with an employer-based health care premium would, I guess not pay anything. And the employer would also get a reduction in premiums by 3000 percent. Or maybe the employee does too.
Who the hell knows but according to the Democrats this is sound logic. Maybe we should let them run other things like department stores.
With sales pitches like that who needs enemies?
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Chris Cameron is a writer and beat reporter for Radioactive Liberty. He also has his own blog about everything, Angry Seafood.
Category: Political Humor Tags: 3000 percent premium reduction, Barack Obama, Health Care, Humor, Politics
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Get your heath care for nothin’
and your check-ups for free
Now when’s Obama paying my mortgage and filling my gas tank? He’d better hurry-up if he wants to buy my vote. I can’t wait all day, there’s food stamps burnin’ a hole in my pocket, or is that a joint?
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[...] There’s a theme today here at Angry Seafood: health care reform. First there was the post about the dangers of sitting down on a patient’s bed. Now my column over at Radioactive Liberty. [...]
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It gets better. The AP did a fact check on the 3000% remark which is funny on its own merit.
Apparently, Barack was supposed to say $3000, a figure attributed to a study about some of the proposals and ideas of the reform.
But that was also rebuked because the study never looked at the actual House bill.
Best yet, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius used the same $3000 figure in a op-ed piece in Tuesday’s USA Today.
The topper is the AP actually found that premiums would increase not decrease.
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Good effort, but you really need to work harder on some more effective punchlines.
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Major Bat Guano, er I mean, Tarik Hussein… if that really is your name – here’s the put-up or shut-up challenge: Write a post. Send it via gmail, to lesjameshumor. If you can keep it clean enough, I’ll publish it, and then we’ll let the comments flow where they will. 300-500 funny words with “effective punchlines” are in order.
Your public is waiting.
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I’d also like to see some effective punchlines from you Tarik.
And at least read more of my stuff before you critique me.
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Awww…. I thought it was great, Chris, and my opinion is the only one that matters, so it’s all good.
Well, maybe Fiar’s matters, too. A little. Or not.
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Who is this Fiar?
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I am not the one trying to be funny. But I will give you that this one was quite funny:
“To think we could have been able to shoot our guns more often or clutch our bibles with both left and right arms.”
That shows a lot of self-irony, well done!
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I appreciate your honesty. Come back and comment anytime.
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Everyone has a right to their opinion.
I do appreciate you also mentioning a joke you liked. That was a class move.
Agree with Les, come back and comment any time.